by Dodie Smith · SALAMANDRA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788478887682
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«El castillo soñado» is Dodie Smith's coming-of-age novel, published by Salamandra in hardcover (352 pages, in Spanish).
Seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain lives with her eccentric family in a ramshackle castle: her father is a writer who doesn't write, her stepmother is bohemian, and her sister Rose is melancholic. The arrival of the Cottons, an American family who inherit the castle, disrupts her routine and brings friendship, love, and the painful path to maturity.
The work was originally published in 1948 under the title I Capture the Castle; the Spanish edition dates from 2002.
A suitable read for young people and adults who enjoy classic coming-of-age stories and an adolescent narrator.
Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smith was an English novelist and playwright. She is best known for writing I Capture the Castle (1948) and the children's novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians (1956). Other works include Dear Octopus (1938) and The Starlight Barking (1967). The Hundred and One Dalmatians was adapted into a 1961 animated film and a 1996 live-action film, both produced by Disney. Her novel I Capture the Castle was voted number 82 as "one of the nation's 100 best-loved novels" by the British public as part of the BBC's The Big Read (2003), and was adapted into a film released the same year.
